Boeing Space Exploration of Houston said May 3 that it had successfully completed the second parachute drop test of the company’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delamar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. The test demonstrated the performance of the entire landing system, Boeing said in a press release.

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